Kaas City

Kaas City is the political and administrative heart of the Sith Empire, rising from the jungle gorges of Dromund Kaas as both a vast metropolis and a heavily fortified center of Imperial power.

SWTOR presents the city as a combination of monumental towers and fortress architecture. The first Sith settlers who rebuilt their civilization on Dromund Kaas established Kaas City among the planet's ravines, and over the following centuries its population grew into the millions.

Kaas City's history begins with the rebuilding of the Sith Empire on Dromund Kaas.

After the ancient Sith Empire's defeat in the Great Hyperspace War, surviving Sith fled familiar hyperspace routes and eventually rediscovered Dromund Kaas. The isolated world gave them a sanctuary beyond Republic awareness from which to reconstruct their civilization. During the first generations of that recovery, Kaas City and its Citadel were established among the planet's jungle gorges.

The city grew with the state surrounding it. Government, military organization, Sith institutions, industry, transportation, infrastructure, and a large supporting population developed across centuries until Kaas City had become a metropolis numbering in the millions and the principal seat of a restored galactic power.

Kaas City was built to project authority. Monumental towers, fortified complexes, elevated infrastructure, broad plazas, and severe Imperial architecture rise above rain-darkened jungle, ravines, mist, and almost constant electrical storms. Government is not visually separate from the city around it: Imperial power is part of the skyline.

That does not make the entire metropolis a government compound.

A population on this scale requires administrators, soldiers, technicians, engineers, medical personnel, analysts, archivists, researchers, merchants, freight crews, service workers, household staff, contractors, pilots, couriers, laborers, families, visitors, and many other people whose daily lives may rarely place them before a Dark Councillor. Original SWTOR material also establishes enslaved people as part of the city's historical population and workforce, reflecting the coercive hierarchies of the Empire that built it.

Where someone fits within Kaas City can therefore matter enormously. Rank, profession, family reputation, species, wealth, patronage, legal status, institutional affiliation, neighborhood, and connections to the Sith can affect where a person lives, which institutions will listen to them, what doors open, and what risks follow them.

Kaas City places characters unusually close to the machinery of the Sith Empire.

The Imperial Military, Sith institutions, government offices, intelligence services, and other Imperial authorities all have reasons to maintain major facilities and personnel in and around the capital. Political rivalry, professional ambition, patronage, bureaucratic conflict, and institutional scrutiny can consequently affect characters who never meet the Empire's most powerful figures.

Security should be understood by location rather than applied identically to the entire metropolis. A cantina, trade market, residence, cargo facility, public plaza, administrative office, military headquarters, intelligence repository, Sith chamber, and restricted Citadel level do not provide the same access.

SWTOR also establishes legitimate non-Sith visitors and Imperial allies conducting business in Kaas City, including bounty hunters and Mandalorians. Being permitted into the capital therefore does not imply unrestricted access to its institutions.

The Imperial Citadel stands at the center of Kaas City's political identity and remains one of the most important symbols of Imperial government.

During SWTOR's original period, the sprawling complex housed the Ministries of War, Intelligence, and Logistics alongside major Sith functions and a Mandalorian enclave. The Dark Council also gathered there, while different portions of the building served conventional Imperial administration, intelligence work, and the Sith hierarchy.

The Citadel visible in SWTOR was not the first structure on the site. An earlier version, influenced by the architecture of the Sith Academy on Korriban and the Great Citadel on Ziost, was destroyed centuries before the class-story period during a Kaggath fought by two members of the Dark Council. The surviving Council ultimately executed both competitors and oversaw the Citadel's reconstruction.

Imperial institutions did not remain frozen afterward. The old Imperial Intelligence organization was later dissolved, Sith Intelligence emerged as its successor, and the Dark Council itself underwent major later reforms. The Citadel is therefore best understood as an enduring center of Imperial authority whose offices, occupants, and political structures can change across different periods of SWTOR history.

Sith Sanctum

The Sith Sanctum is the Citadel's principal space associated with the Sith Order.

Its Cold War-era codex identifies it as a gathering place for powerful Sith and as a location closely associated with the Dark Council and direct government of Dromund Kaas. The deepest areas were severely restricted, while possession of chambers within the Sanctum could itself signal political ambition and proximity to Imperial power.

The Sanctum consequently provides a strong setting for formal summons, Sith patronage, rivalry, instruction, guarded meetings, administrative conflict, political maneuvering, and scenes involving people attached to powerful Sith without treating every part of the Citadel as publicly accessible.

Mandalorian Enclave

During the original SWTOR period, one wing of the Citadel was reserved for the Empire's Mandalorian allies.

The enclave was more than a conventional embassy. SWTOR describes warriors testing themselves there in dangerous competitions while experienced Mandalorians helped plan Imperial military operations. The Bounty Hunter storyline also makes the enclave an important point of contact for participants seeking entry into the Great Hunt.

Lightning Spires

Kaas City's relationship with Dromund Kaas's storms is not purely defensive.

SWTOR establishes a network of lightning spires designed to attract destructive strikes away from personnel and developed areas while capturing their electrical energy. That energy is used to help power Kaas City.

The spires turn one of the planet's defining hazards into part of the capital's infrastructure. They also provide a useful reminder that the city's apparent permanence depends upon extensive engineering operating in an environment that remains physically hostile beyond its controlled spaces.

Maintenance, sabotage, power disruption, engineering work, weather damage, inspections, or failures in supporting infrastructure can therefore become believable local problems without requiring a galaxy-level crisis.

Trade, Cargo & Daily Movement

The Imperial capital also contains established commercial and logistical spaces.

The Galactic Trade Center and adjacent trade-market facilities provide an SWTOR-established commercial anchor within Kaas City. Cargo Ports A3 and B7 appear in the original class stories as controlled transport and transfer facilities, demonstrating that freight, secure movement, personnel transfers, and smaller-scale ship operations exist alongside the monumental government complexes.

Those locations broaden the kinds of characters who can plausibly have business in the city. Merchants, technicians, quartermasters, cargo crews, inspectors, contractors, security personnel, couriers, passengers, customs staff, buyers, sellers, investigators, and covert operatives can all have legitimate reasons to enter the same urban infrastructure.

Offworld traffic reaches the capital world through Dromund Kaas Spaceport, while surface transportation connects the spaceport, Kaas City, the Citadel, and other developed areas. SWTOR presents the spaceport and city as distinct locations separated by controlled routes and stretches of jungle rather than placing every arriving starship directly beside the Citadel.

Nexus Room Cantina

The Nexus Room is an established Kaas City cantina appearing in SWTOR stories and providing one of the capital's clearest social settings outside formal Imperial offices.

Its value for roleplay comes partly from its ordinariness. Meetings, professional networking, celebrations, introductions, quiet negotiations, covert contacts, rivalries, entertainment, and routine evenings can all bring characters there without requiring exceptional political rank.

A capital becomes easier to inhabit when not every important conversation takes place in a command chamber. The Nexus Room provides an established alternative.

Spires of Victory

The Spires of Victory are one of Kaas City's clearest examples of Imperial political symbolism made physical.

Dark Council member Darth Gorgos commissioned the monument to commemorate the Empire's victorious return to galactic war and the Sacking of Coruscant. SWTOR describes its suspended forms as representing Sith ascendancy, the downfall of the Empire's enemies, and the authority of the Sith Emperor.

The monument's construction also reflects the society that produced it. Hundreds of enslaved workers were used to build it, while Gorgos herself was murdered by her apprentice before it was completed.

The Spires can therefore function as more than scenery. They are a public statement about victory, hierarchy, coercion, Sith rivalry, and the version of history Imperial power chose to monumentalize.

Monument to Lord Ergast

The Monument to Lord Ergast offers a more uncertain example of Kaas City's relationship with its past.

Although the monument honors an early Sith figure, SWTOR's surviving records emphasize how little reliable information remains about Ergast himself. The statue was commissioned centuries after his supposed lifetime and was modeled not upon Ergast but upon a later follower of his teachings.

The monument is useful precisely because public memory and historical certainty are not identical. Archives, traditions, monuments, political narratives, and inherited assumptions can preserve a story without proving every detail of it.

Within StarForgeRP continuity, Kaas City includes locally established residential and administrative environments beyond SWTOR's named gameplay locations.

Character histories have established lower administrative districts within the city, including the locally designated Storm-Nine administrative ward. These areas provide useful homes and workplaces for characters whose experience of the Imperial capital is shaped more by bureaucracy, employment, housing, family, and institutional dependence than by proximity to the Dark Council.

House Vashara also maintains the Vashara Estate on the upper perimeter of Kaas City. The estate is a private House property rather than an Imperial government facility, combining residence, apprenticeship, administration, secure archival work, and other House responsibilities within the wider political environment of the capital.

Kaas City works best as a persistent metropolis rather than a backdrop reserved for audiences with important Sith.

A character's home, workplace, patron, neighborhood, credentials, professional contacts, family reputation, favorite gathering place, access restrictions, institutional obligations, and history with the city can all create reasons to return.

• A routine Imperial record becomes politically dangerous after the patron or office associated with it falls from favor, leaving several people with conflicting reasons to recover, preserve, alter, or destroy the original.

• A shipment expected through a cargo facility fails to arrive, and several offices begin assigning blame before anyone knows whether the cause is sabotage, corruption, theft, administrative error, or an ordinary transport failure.

• A meeting at the Nexus Room connects people whose organizations would prefer that their relationship remain private.

• Maintenance on a monument, public structure, or older section of the city exposes records, construction material, remains, or evidence that complicates an accepted version of local history.

• A character has legitimate reason to be in Kaas City but lacks the authorization required for the particular office, archive, compound, or restricted level where their business eventually leads.

• Damage to a lightning spire, transit system, power network, residence, workplace, or other ordinary infrastructure becomes difficult because several Imperial authorities claim overlapping responsibility.